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SubjectRe: verifying whitespace patches don't change anything was Re: [PATCH] Staging:rtl8192e: fix comments
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 10:10:23AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:05:47AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:35:16PM +0000, tim@weberpafrica.com wrote:
> > > From: Tim Schofield <tim.schofield1960@googlemail.com>
> > >
> > > ---
> > > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/r8180_93cx6.c | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
> > > 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/r8180_93cx6.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/r8180_93cx6.c
> > > index 262ed5f..60fba80 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/r8180_93cx6.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/r8180_93cx6.c
> > > @@ -23,12 +23,14 @@
> > > static void eprom_cs(struct net_device *dev, short bit)
> > > {
> > > if (bit)
> > > + /* enable EPROM */
> > > write_nic_byte(dev, EPROM_CMD,
> > > (1<<EPROM_CS_SHIFT) | \
> > > - read_nic_byte(dev, EPROM_CMD)); //enable EPROM
> > > + read_nic_byte(dev, EPROM_CMD));
> > > else
> > > + /* disable EPROM */
> > > write_nic_byte(dev, EPROM_CMD, read_nic_byte(dev, EPROM_CMD)\
> > > - &~(1<<EPROM_CS_SHIFT)); //disable EPROM
> > > + &~(1<<EPROM_CS_SHIFT));
> >
> > This does not do what you think it does (hint, you need {} if you want
> > to have more than one line in an if statement...)

Sorry, Greg, you're wrong in this case. /* */ does not count as a line.
Here's an example:

$ cat foo.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
if (0)
/* foo */
printf("Hello, World\n");
return 0;
}

$ gcc -o foo foo.c -W -Wall -O2 -g
$ ./foo
[no output]


I think a much more cogent criticism of this patch would be that the comment
is entirely unnecessary for this function with a simple change:

-static void eprom_cs(struct net_device *dev, short bit)
+static void eprom_cs(struct net_device *dev, short enable)
{
- if (bit)
+ if (enable)
write_nic_byte(dev, EPROM_CMD,
(1<<EPROM_CS_SHIFT) | \
- read_nic_byte(dev, EPROM_CMD)); //enable EPROM
+ read_nic_byte(dev, EPROM_CMD));
else
write_nic_byte(dev, EPROM_CMD, read_nic_byte(dev, EPROM_CMD)\
- &~(1<<EPROM_CS_SHIFT)); //disable EPROM
+ &~(1<<EPROM_CS_SHIFT));

--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."


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